Which nation had nearly 600,000 Warsaw Pact soldiers sent into it to remove its leader and stop reforms?
History · Middle School · Mon Jan 18 2021
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- The nation that had nearly 600,000 Warsaw Pact soldiers sent into it to remove its leader and stop reforms was Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring in 1968.
- The leader at the time was Alexander Dubček, who was attempting to implement liberal reforms to create "socialism with a human face." This period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia included a loosening of restrictions on the media, speech, and travel, but it caused alarm within the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries.
- Fearing that the reforms would lead to a shift towards capitalism or even a breakaway from the socialist bloc, the Soviet Union, along with other Warsaw Pact nations, organized a massive military intervention, codenamed Operation Danube, to halt the reforms. Dubček was subsequently removed from his position, and the reforms were reversed.